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Speaking of tke collection examined ky Mr. Moore, Daintree suggests * tkat “ it 
is jjossible that fossils from difEerent localities, or perhaps drift specimens, have been 
mixed up.” 
In the same Paper Mr. Daintree (p. 278) remarked that “ a single shell {Tellina) 
found in a bed of horizontal limestone at the head of the Gregory on the Barkly Tableland, 
and forwarded to me by the Itov. W. B. Clarke, of Sydney, would, if belonging to this 
Desert Sandstone [Series], as it probably does, give reason to belieye that the lacustrine 
condition may be eliminated.” This observation is noticed merely for the purpose of 
correcting Daintrcc’s mistake, tlio limestone of the Barkly Tableland having since 
proved to belong to the Bolling Downs Pormation. 
Daintree continues as follows : — “ As early as 1866, a suite of fossils was 
collected by Messrs. Sutherland and Carson (of Marathon Station) on the Blinders 
Biver, and forwarded for determination to Prof. McCoy in Melbourne. They were 
never figured f ; but his manuscript names are as follows J ; — 
Beptilia. 
Icliiliyosaurits australis, McCoy. 
'Plesiosaurus Sutlierlandi, McCoy. 
Plesiosaurus macrospondijlus, McCoy. 
Cephalopoda. 
Ammonites Sutlierlandi, McCoy. 
A. Flindersi, McCoy. 
JBelemnitella diptyclia, McCoy [=B. Canliami, Tate]. 
Ancyloceras Flindersi, McCoy. 
Lamellibrahciiiata. 
Inoceramus Carsoni, McCoy. 
„ Sutlierlandi, McCoy. 
“ One locality being assigned to all the fossils alluded to in the above notice, it 
was evident to me that either fossils from difEerent localities had been mixed together, 
or derived specimens had been mingled with those obtained in situ, and no satisfactory 
conclusion or inference could bo drawn, for purposes of correlation with European, 
Asiatic, or African forms. In company with Mr. Sutherland, who supplied McCoy 
with the before-mentioned materials, I therefore visited the Dpper Blinders and cai’e- 
fully collected the fossils from three localities — viz., Marathon Station, Hughenden 
Station, and Hughenden Cattle Station. 
“ At Marathon, which is some forty miles further down the Blinders than 
Hughenden, there is, close to the homestead, an outcrop of fine-grained yellow sand- 
* Loc. cit. p. 282. 
t Prof, (now Sir. P.) MoOoy published his researches on these fossils in a series of Papers entitled as 
follows 
(1.) A Note on the Cretoceons Deposits of Australia. Ann. and May. Nat. Hist., 18G5, Srd Ser., xin., 
p. 333. 
(2.) On the Discovery of Cretaceous Fossils in Australia. Trans. B. Soc. Viet, 1860, vii., pp. ‘13-.51. 
(3.) On the Occurrence of Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus in Australia. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, 
1867, Srd Ser., (mx., p. 355. 
(4.) On the Discovery of Bnaliosauria and other Cretaceous Fossils in Australia. Trans. B. tioc. 
Viet, 1868, riiL, p. 41. 
From these references, it will be seen that Sir F. McCoy was absolutely the first to announce the occurrence 
of Cretaceous fossils in Australia. 
i Without tlie attached notes. 
